Stare decisis is the immutable legal rule that courts will stick to established precedent when making decisions.
What if there are no more rules?
What if there are no more laws? No more precedents, no more
For many in Queens, rent increases of up to 7% under consideration citywide by the Rent Guidelines Board will drive them to make choices difficult.
“Asking people to choose between rent and food and medicine is beyond unfair, it’s obscene and amoral and [a] driving force in the housing crisis today,” said Douglas, an Elmhurst retired, during the board hearing on rates for rent-stabilized units at the Jamaica Performing Arts Center on Monday evening.
“If I get squeezed any more I’ll be living out of a cardboard box on the street.”
Speakers became emotional as they expressed frustration with their
The rising-interest-rate environment has proven to be quite challenging for the US equity market, especially for growth stocks. Share prices of many companies have tanked dramatically in the past year despite solid financials and robust business models.
Airbnb (ABNB 5.96%) and Snowflakes (SNOW 4.53%) are two such companies that have continued to post solid numbers, yet their share prices are currently trading at a deep discount to their historical valuations. Here’s why these two companies can prove to be smart long-term buys for investors in the current times.
Airbnb’s leading short-term rental platform has established a
Twitter is being sued by its landlord for ducking out on rent for its downtown San Francisco headquarters, where the platform reportedly went through heavy cost-cutting under new CEO Elon Musk.
The company owes $136,260 in unpaid rent, according to the lawsuit filed Thursday by Columbia Property Trust.
Twitter’s freeloading was reported early last month by the New York Times, which Musk wrote and his advisors hoped to renegotiate terms of lease agreements after mass layoffs.
The downsizing has already begun.
Twitter closed its Seattle offices, The Times reported Friday — cutting janitorial and security services. Employees were left bringing
Some have complained high-paying tech jobs have driven up rents in major tech hubs — creating an exodus that will later drive up rents in other cities.
But ProPublica asks whether there’s another technology at work:
On a summer day last year, a group of real estate tech executives gathered at a conference hall in Nashville to boast about one of their company’s signature products: software that uses a mysterious algorithm to help landlords push the highest possible rents on tenants. “Never before have we seen these numbers,” said Jay Parsons, a vice president of RealPage, as conventiongoers wandered by.
